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World Wetlands Day: IRIS Affiliates working in climate-regulating powerhouse ecosystems
Today, February 2, 2024, is celebrating World Wetlands Day! Wetlands are an incredible environmental resource and provide diverse, invaluable benefits: temperature regulation, keystone species habitat, storm surge insulation, and massive amounts of carbon sequestration in soil and plant biomass. In honor of wetlands and the work IRIS affiliates do with this important ecosystems, we’re re-sharing an article from UGA’s College…
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IRIS affiliate Oscar Villegas Gutierrez selected for Western Dredging Association Fellowship
This past December, IRIS Master’s student Oscar Villegas Gutierrez was selected for the Western Dredging Association’s (WEDA) fellowship. Villegas Gutierrez was selected for his commitment to research that furthers the advancement of the dredging profession. The fellowship will provide him with a stipend that will help support his research and participation in outreach activities over the following year. “During my…
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UGA environmental law professor tackles complex climate issues
Article by Cheryth France, from the River Basin Center, featuring IRIS affiliate Adam Orford Water has always been an undercurrent in Adam Orford’s life and career. The attorney practically grew up on Alaskan seas. With a penchant for music and languages, his career might have branched a dozen ways, but he now serves as UGA’s environmental law professor. And it’s all…
